At this moment, Ptolemy, who had a scepter (in fact, a delicate axe of pure gold), and a crown that also shimmered with golden light, as well as his ecstatic eyeliner and false beard, stepped down the sedan chair in high spirits, and walked up the hill with the support of the great eunuch Motammenes and his daughter Cleopatra. Out of politeness, Li Bida and other generals dismounted en masse and bowed to the feared pharaoh.

Ptolemy hurriedly high-fived, several eunuchs came up with golden badges, Li Bida fixed his eyes, the badge pattern is a cobra with a crown of pharaoh's stripes, still spitting out the letter angrily, "This is the incarnation of the goddess of the Nile, dear Libidaeus, I can't bear to let your army have no banner to go out, look at the scarlet shabby banner of the miscellaneous lion, how imposing." Pharaoh covered his nose and spoke with contempt at the banner of the Legion of Peternius, and the general who had harmed him immediately asked the Flag Bearer to move the flag of the Legion of Auxiliaries to the other side of the hill, so as not to disturb Pharaoh's divine view, "Therefore I now present to you the insignia of the royal army of Egypt, and I hope that you will achieve a brilliant victory at once." ”

This is a terrible thing, the genuine badge of the Egyptian Ptolemy, Li Bida hurriedly bowed down and raised his hands, but this heavy badge, and then turned around and handed it to Sabo, who was frowning beside him, and said loudly, "Take my staff, from now on, while waving the mountain falcon flag and the lion flag, install the golden cobra given by the pharaoh at the top of my base camp!" ”

Hearing this, Ptolemy laughed like an old woman, and then several Roman engineers used their horizontal rangefinders, "Your Excellency, Honorable Pharaoh. Your line is here. I had already hired a Chaldean astrologer to observe it beforehand. A complete treasure with a beautiful view of the sea and the protection of our cavalry patrols. ”

When Li Bida blew the conch, he saw that Cleopatra behind the pharaoh was constantly throwing all kinds of eyes at him, sometimes naughty, sometimes charming, so he pinched his nose and stopped watching this little lady's performance, probably she was also rejoicing for her "survival"! At this time, Pharaoh held Li Bida's back. Walking slowly down the hillside, pretending to be very knowledgeable, he asked about the next route of the march, "Shall we sail down Epirus, first to Cyrenaica, and then to Alexandra to restore my throne?" ”

Yes, Lord Pharaoh, we can easily cross the Adriatic Sea in this small, single-decker ship of the makeshift collection, and then continue our march of thousands of kilometers in a desert full of poisonous insects and scorpions, to the foot of Alexandria. Defeat your eldest daughter's army in one fell swoop, and you may be able to enter this great city with your mummy.

Li Bida complained fiercely in his heart. But on the surface, he still showed respect to Pharaoh, even if the other party was only a half-idiot, "The road to Cyrenaica is too difficult, and most of the recruits I have recruited are also recruits, who are not suitable for long seas, and my proposition is to go first to Dikhachan in Epirus, and then through the Thessaly Mountain Road, to Macedonia, and then to Ephesus in Pergamum, where we can obtain the next step of provisions, and after the rest we will first control Cyprus, so that the jewel of your crown, the city of Alexandria, will be in time. It will be returned to you safely. ”

The pharaoh was a little dizzy by a string of place names, but he was still very happy to hear Li Bida's confident proposal, so he warmly invited Li Bida and his generals to have dinner in this temporary camp, "Although the conditions are simpler now, the real grand banquet and reward will be held again when the capital city has been recovered!" ”

But Ptolemy XII's words proved to be completely polite after dark, and at the banquet sixty soft-waisted dancing girls, accompanied by various musical instruments, such as harp, lute, liel, single and double pipe flute, etc., danced with silk scarves, and Li Bida and his subordinates were each given fast ivory castanets, responsible for beating the beats and beats for these dancers, and Xiao Yanhou also came over and taught Li Bida this and that, "Hey, after beating the rhythm, you have to bite your fingertips gently, yes, like me, this is a kind of respect for the dancers' skills." Yes. Just as Cleopatra leaned up slimy, Sabo, who was beside the commander of the Twelfth Legion, had a calm face, deliberately held the plate, moved it there a few times, and then buckled the plate heavily on the small table.

"Well, your staff seems to be angry." Cleopatra raised her eyebrows, looked at the sulking Sabo through Li Bida, and said with an innocent expression.

"You learned that the Romans didn't like their commanders getting too close to foreign dignitaries." Li Bida's answer made Xiao Yanhou laugh, but Li Bida continued to slap Sabo's side and asked, "I know that you don't like this kind of occasion, you are a descendant of the standard Romans, and you don't like pleasures and foreigners, right?" ”

"What I don't like is the former, and the latter depends."

"I'll give you a new mission."

"Your Excellency, I can't refuse your task, even if it is for me to take the place of the musician on the other side and play a double flute."

"Not really, you can negotiate with Cassiyo tomorrow if you can charter a luxury cruise ship with a height of three stories and five hundred long oarsmen, yes, preferably covered in bronze and lead, the glittering kind. I will make Pharaoh a flagship, that I may increase the majesty of the royal family on the other side. Li Bida's order made Saab's mood even more resistant, but he still frowned and nodded, he didn't understand what substantive effect this kind of exaggerated and useless so-called "Oriental majesty" could have, even now, a powerful consul general may ride a donkey alone on weekdays.

At this moment, a maid of the pharaoh's court with figs and spices smeared with dried fish knelt in front of the two straw mats, this maid's lips were thin, some dark skin was very delicate and lovely, black hair was inserted with fragrant incense, pointed breasts and upturned buttocks, and Sabo was stunned at once, this was obviously the indigenous girl of the Nile, with a strong exotic style.

"What's her name?" Li Bida pointed to the half-kneeling girl with little clothing and asked Cleopatra.

"Her name is Nephdidi, the daughter of a Nile boatman, the faithful maid of our court, and of course she is a virgin, and I will give her to your angry staff from forth." Cleopatra said nonchalantly as she put her arm around Lipida. (To be continued......)